It can always be worse. I once saw a vendor's SE give a 10- or 20-page printout to a colleague of mine, who then sat at a keypunch for several hours punching cards to match the VERIFY and ZAP hex data for the dozens of PTFs described in said hand-out. This vendor apparently could not understand how error-prone their preferred method of distributing maintenance was. I hate to cast aspersions on any vendor, but the product might have been Eye Dee Emm Ess before its owner was bought by CA.
Bill Fairchild Software Developer Rocket Software 275 Grove Street * Newton, MA 02466-2272 * USA Tel: +1.617.614.4503 * Mobile: +1.508.341.1715 Email: [email protected] Web: www.rocketsoftware.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Yuhas Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 10:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Jes2 Converter abend d37 I have had a vendor send me such a deck. Not only did I have to insert a JOB statement, I also had to modify the DSNs in the CLIST included in the deck. Further, this jobstream contained a few object decks, so the editing was tricky due to having CAPS OFF. The vendor even crowed about how good this method of installation was. The KISS method was lost on them. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
